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Mergers + Acquisitions Guidelines
The merger guidelines, in line with TRAI proposals, include 1) Merged entity’s share of subs or adjusted gross revenues (AGR) cannot be >40% and 2) Minimum four operators required in a service area post-mergers. DoT will permit merger of operations only upon completion of 3 years from the effective date…
Value Added Services Market
The value-added services (VAS) account for 8% of the mobile market’s revenues in India, and non-SMS services account for 65% of VAS revenues. CRBT (caller ring-back tones): This constitues bulk of the VAS market share at 45%. This is a popular service in which the calling party hears music chosen…
Send Free SMS from e-Mail – 160by2.com
160By2.com the FREE SMS startup in India powered by Mobile Advertising has introduced yet another feature – SMS from E-mail to Mobile. This is introduced after several Indian IT companies started blocking the website of 160by2.com. All you need to do is insert the recipient’s mobile number in the “To”…
Comparison of Paymate + mChek payment services
Have you ever tried mobile payment services like Paymate or mChek ? We had an exclusive review of Paymate mobile payment system in India. However, I tried mChek and found it to be more user friendly than Paymate. Here are some differences between the two competing services. Paymate is like…
Vodafone to launch Apple iPhone ?
News was leaked early this morning that Apple is planning to launch the official version of iPhone in India in Sept-08. Like elsewhere in the world how Apple has tied-up with a mobile operator for selling its handset, it is believed that it has chosen Vodafone in India and Australia….
Orkut Mobile Lanuched with limited features
Google powered social networking site Orkut, the most popular network for Indians has gone live with Mobile edition. The site can be accessed with a GPRS enabled phone at http://m.orkut.com [On your left is the screen shot of the Login which I took on my N70 and Opera mobile browser]…
Subscriber addtion moving towards 10 million a month ?
GSM sub additions were at ~7.5m in March ’08 (including Reliance GSM). India could therefore record its highest ever net monthly additions at ~9.5m (assuming CDMA maintains its monthly run rate of ~2m net adds) as tariff cuts and increased coverage flow through in numbers. Idea’s net adds crossed the…
Bharti Airtel launches 1Mbps Unlimited Plan
Bharti Airtel Broadband is all set to offer 1 Mbps unlimited data transfer broadband plan in Karnataka circle. [I am not sure of other circles yet] Just last week, BSNL DataOne launched 512Kbps broadband at cheaper price than Airtel. As per the information provided by Bharti Airtel, here are the…